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The story of 19th century intellectual revolutionary Georg Buechner and his 1834 pamphlet Der Hessische Landbot (The Hessian Courier) that called for a land revolution with the rallying cry: "'Peace to the Cottages, War on the Palaces." Facing political imprisonment, Buechner fled the country, but his revolutionary friend, Pastor Friedich Ludwig Weidig, was caught, imprisoned, tortured, and, reportedly, murdered in prison. An informer betrayed the hoped-for uprising, and a bloody response resulted in the peasants remaining subservient to the lords of the manor-estates in Hessen.

In this 'film-noir' on double identity and role reversal, a man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee, he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the deceased. Nobody notices the substitution, that his wife is now another. How easy to go from one love to another... But a friend of the dead woman starts asking questions.

An alphabet of German Dadaism.

Webern's "Opus 5" commented by three very different interpretations: an abstract image sequence of moving lights and shadows, an almost abstract image sequence of a lava landscape and a monochrome part that forces the viewer to contribute own associations.